Method of making mouthpieces for cigarettes.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX KRlj'MMLING, OF'STEGLITZ, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOIR TO SOC. ANM. WADDINXVEENSCHE KURKWARENFABRIEK CI-DEVAN'I L. VERMEULEN & 00., OF WADDINX'VEEN, NETHERLANDS, A CORPORATION OF NETHERLANDS.

METHOD OF MAKING MOUTHPIECES FOR GIGARETTES.

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7 '0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX KRijMMLING, a citizen of the German Empire, and residing at Ste-glitz, near Berlin, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Method of Making Mouthpieces for Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to methods of makinrr mouthpieces for cigarettes.

t has heretofore been proposed to make the mouthpieces of cigarettes on the rolled cigarette paper in the cigarette machine by applying a suitable mixture, 6. g. a metallic powder, say gold, silver, or the like, and a liquid binder by means of rollers. It has formerly been customary to make the mouthpieces by coating apparatus specially designed for the purpose. when the mouthpieces are made on the strips of paper in the cigarette machine before the paper is rolled up, however, it is necessary for the cigarette machine to run relatively slowly.

A primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of making mouthpieces for cigarettes, to which the above mentioned defects are not attached. In the improved method it is no longer necessary to make the mouthpieces by means of separate coating apparatus, nor is it necessary to lower the speed of the cigarette machine.

The improved method substantially consists in squirting the coating which is to constitute the mouthpiece at lntervals on to a broad web of cigarette paper before its subdivision into narrow strips. The coating Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

- Application filed September 22, 1915. Serial No. 52,072.

preferably consists of a mixture of a liquid binder and a metallic powder, 6. 9. gold, silver or the like.

The improved method may be carried into practice as follows: A spool carrying the web of cigarette paper may be arranged over a slanting table in front of which is located a quirting device which can be actuated periodically and is connected with a vessel containing the liquid mouthpiece mixture, 6. g. metallic power mixed with a liquid binder. While the web of paper is being unwound and drawn over the table, the mixture is intermittently squirted onto it at intervals corresponding to the length of the cigarettes to be made; the web is then subdivided, so that the subsequent coating of the cigarette paper after it has been rolled up is not necessary. The paper for so-called gold-tipped cigarettes may be prepared in this manner.

I claim 2- A method of preparing paper for making tipped cigarettes consisting in intermittently squirting a liquid mixture of a metallic power and a binder at intervals in the form of bands across a web of cigarette paper, and in then cutting the web at the hands into smaller pieces of paper coated at one edge thereof.

In testimony whereof, I afix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MAX KRIlMMLING.

Witnesses WOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY Hasrnn.

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